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Here we are in day 25 of the race, still with no World 2nd, 6 full days after Method's WF! There are technically 22 guilds fighting for that silver medal, but the most likely to take it are Exorsus, Alpha and Style War, who've had more time on Kil'jaeden.

While Exorsus do have a 3 day advantage over the two Chinese guilds, Alpha and Style War have been going at it very hard, each racking up over 900 wipes to date. The incredible thing is that after said 900+ wipes and 11 days of tries on the final boss of the Tomb, Alpha have "only" gotten him as low as 39%, as the dark phase of the encounter is quite crazy. We don't have any info on Exorsus' progress or wipe count, but they did announce they would be taking it easier from last Saturday, so their lead may not be there at all.

A lot of people are commenting on how it's taking such a log time to get a World 2nd, but if we take a look into the (actually not that distant) past we can see that the 6 days it's taken to get a 2nd place finisher isn't that unprecedented - we only need look back to WoD and Blackrock Foundry to find Paragon taking 5 days to catch up to Method on Blackhand. We then move a bit more into the past, to the Mists of Pandaria and Throne of Thunder, for both Ra-den and Lei Shen. While Ra-den doesn't technically count due to his limited attempts, it still took 7.5 days for Blood Legion to finish up after Method's win, and the same two guilds were 5 days apart on Lei Shen.

The real target for Kil'jaeden at the moment is Firelands Ragnaros from back in Cataclysm, where Method took 7 days to clean up the raid after Paragon's World First. KJ seems poised to break that record, and we don't really have any stats for Vanilla and BC, so after another day he may indeed get another accolade to his name. We also have to mention the Lich King, again not really comparable to any of the above due to his limited attempts, but it did take For the Horde 16 days to get that silver after Paragon's win. All of the above stats are for the raids' maximum difficulties and for 20/25 man mode.

We also got some more info on Method's Kil'jaeden experience, with Justwait's stats for their progress pre and post-fixes (Y = combat time X = pull) :

For anyone interested in graphs/data, here's some pull information for our progression on KJ - not much was accomplished early before fixes. pic.twitter.com/9UAetPI93d

Another strange factoid is that Method actually downed KJ on the same day as they did Archimonde in hellfire citadel, 2 years earlier.

So, 22 guilds at the final boss of the Mythic Tomb of Sargeras, three in serious competition for the silver medal, and Method taking a well deserved vacation from progress. Who do you think will fill out the top 3?

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There are more changes coming to classes on the beta, and although none are as big and impactful as the Balance Druid rework, both Protection Paladins and Discipline Priests are getting quite a few changes soon.

With Paladins it's all about the core rotation and mitigation, with Consecration being at the heart of the changes, while Priests get a brand new talent, increasing their damage by a flat amount reduced by the number of Atonemets up at the time, as well as more talent reworks.
Protection Paladin (source)
A few changes to Protection in an upcoming build. Mostly focused on smoothing out issues in the core rotation and active mitigation.
Consecration no longer buffs Shield of the Righteous and Light of the Protector
Consecration cooldown 4.5s (from 9s) and duration 12s (from 9s), but you can only have one down at once
Mastery: Divine Bulwark reduces all damage you take while in Consecration (instead of increasing Shield of the Righteous effectiveness)
Avenger's Shield increases the effects (damage and armor) of your next Shield of the Righteous by 20%
Consecrated Hammer will be replaced with a new L15 talent
Listing all at once because they're all pieces of the same goals. First, Avenger's Shield is back to having some baseline defensive value, which pulls the rotation together by making you care about both hit and Hammer of the Righteous other than for pickups/damage.
Second, Consecration is easier to work with. If you don't have to move, you have to replace it less often, and if you do have to move, you can replace it much more quickly. While standing in Consecration still has some value, your core buttons no longer rely on it, and the loss of mitigation from being outside it is much smaller than Legion. It also provides a small source of baseline magic mitigation.
Finally, the gap between Shield of the Righteous uptime and downtime, in terms of mitigation, is less dramatic. The previous mastery made that gap get wider and wider as the expansion went on, leading to the problem of increasing moments of vulnerability when active mitigation was down. Shield of the Righteous will now have more consistent value across the expansion. The spec will be tuned expecting slightly lower Shield of the Righteous strength and uptime compared to Legion, which helps avoid the problem where there were windows of very poor mitigation compared to other tanks.

Discipline Priest (source)
A few changes for an upcoming beta build.
New talent: Sins of the Many. Your damage is increased by up to X%, diminishing for each ally with Atonement.
Likely location is L75, pushing Lenience to L100, and removing Grace.
We agree with trying to find a talent that calls to having a smaller number of Atonements out, but are trying a version that still provides some benefit in all situations.
Grace's concept was generally subsumed by the new mastery (which is seeming successful so far), and stacking Grace on top of mastery led to huge variance in the strength of Shadow Mend and Power Word: Shield casts. Making that choice with mastery is a better place than making it with a talent that was essentially required in some types of content.
The talent rearrangement should leave L100 as a row of talents that most show their strength when effectively healing a large number of targets, and L75 as a row of talents less focused on that situation.
Contrition's healing is increased by Power of the Dark Side
So that Power of the Dark Side remains neutral as to your choice of which mode of Penance to use.
Mindbender's damage reduced 24%
It has been unintentionally strong ever since the squish, as many people have observed.

Mythrax the Unraveler is the penultimate boss of Uldir and here's a video preview of the encounter by FatbossTV.
Mythrax the Unraveler
While questing in Vol'dun, Horde players learn that Sethrak successfully summoned Mythrax to the world. The Horde story in Zandalar culminates in the Zandalar Forever Scenario, where G'huun orders Zul to help him shatter his final seal with the aid of Mythrax.
Overview
Mythrax the Unraveler, Bringer of Oblivion, Slayer of Sethraliss: with his missions complete, he returns to his master's side to await further instruction.
Mythrax's abilities will trigger Annihilation, reducing players' maximum health. When Annihilation triggers, there is a chance that an Existence Fragment will spawn, allowing the player or her allies to regain that previously lost maximum health.
Damage Dealers
Move away from your allies when affected by Imminent Ruin.
Avoid having multiple players charmed by the same Oblivion Sphere.
Healers
Move away from your allies when affected by Imminent Ruin.
Breaking multiple targets out of Oblivion Sphere will trigger heavy damage to all players.
Avoid having multiple players charmed by the same Oblivion Sphere.
Tanks
Avoid taking damage from Essence Shear when you are already affected by Essence Shear.
Be mindful of your survivability as you gain stacks of Annihilation.
Uldir Boss Previews by FatbossTV
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Play with the Blues returns Thursday, May 24 at 3:00 p.m. PDT on Battle for Azeroth Beta with Alliance Warfronts available for playtesting for the first time!
How to Participate
Create an Alliance character on Anduin and find the War Table in Stormwind to queue up for the Warfront. If you don't have Beta access there's still enough time to enter our Beta key giveaway. Don't forget to check out our preview of the Battle of Stromgarde Horde Warfront.
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Greetings friends,

This Thursday (May 24 PDT), we'll have a Play with the Blues event focusing on Alliance Warfronts. Members of the Blizzard WoW Development and WoW QA teams will be fighting alongside you all on the Anduin beta realm. Be on the lookout for characters in the <Blizzard Alliance> guild.

Start Time: 3:00 p.m. PDT
End Time: 5:00 p.m. PDT
Realm: Anduin

How to queue for Warfronts:
1. Head to the Trade District in Stormwind.
2. Look for the War Table located outside of Trias' Cheese shop.
3. Interact with the table to queue up!

Reminder:
There are no level restrictions or prerequisite quests for Warfronts in the beta. If you'd like to participate, but only have a Horde character on Anduin (or no characters at all ... yet), all you need to do is create a fresh Alliance character, and you'll be good to go.